Quotes About Intelligence

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles.

If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic." "If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

Rufe nodded. "Oh, sure, that's CIA style. Throw up a smoke screen—bumfoozle the opposition.

That one of history's greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.

In the Bible, women are presented as no less intelligent than men, nor any the less capable of redemption; the question is one of authority, not of humanity or dignity, whereas in the neoplatonist tradition women are seen at times almost as a different species or at best a very inferior form of man.

There is in every situation the possibility for the human intelligence to receive some kind of formation by the infinite intelligent act of God.

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is information; wisdom is knowing how to use it.

When psychologists isolate the personal qualities that predict "positive outcomes" in life, they consistently find two traits: intelligence and self-control.

Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la imbecilidad.

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

I found in them the qualities I looked for in professional writers and artists of all kinds, a total dedication to their work, not necessarily obvious but discernible all the same, compassion, intelligence rather than intellect, and that peculiar attitude to the world in general, half of mockery, half of deep concern...

We must become aware of the astonishing fact that as a species we are the victims of an instance of traumatic abuse in childhood. As human beings, we once had a symbiotic relationship with the world-girdling intelligence of the planet that was mediated through shamanic plant use. This relationship was disrupted and eventually lost by the progressive climatic drying of the Eurasian and African land masses.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

her first husband was a 'genius with a misdirected mind'.